Evolutionary anthropology society

WELCOME

The Evolutionary Anthropology Society (EAS) is a section of the American Anthropological Association. We bring together all those interested in applying modern evolutionary theory to the analysis of human biology, behavior, and culture.  This website describes our group’s activities. We welcome students, faculty, and anyone with similar interests to join the EAS and help us build a thriving community of researchers.

OUR ACTIVITIES

Our diverse membership includes human behavioral ecologists, primatologists, archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, psychologists, biologists, and paleoanthropologists, to name a few. At the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), we provide venues for students, young investigators, and senior researchers to get to know each other and to present current research on a variety of topics within evolutionary anthropology.

Our emphasis is on scientific analyses including a balance of theory and data.  Evolutionary anthropology is a broad and exciting field, and we encourage research and presentations on a wide range of topics.  A summary of EAS-sponsored presentations at past AAA meetings can be found here, and have included foraging and food-sharing in comparative and diachronic perspective, gender roles, evolutionary applied anthropology, the evolution of cooperation and inequality, and more.  Given the breadth of our membership and the inclusive definition of evolutionary anthropology to which EAS

subscribes, the list of topics we address is certain to expand.

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